The Court did not decide in favor of Plaintiffs or Defendants. The Class Representatives think the Class could have recovered a substantial amount if the Class won at trial. The Defendants think they would have prevailed in the Case. But there was no trial. Instead, both sides agreed to a Class Settlement. That way, they […]

In a class action lawsuit, one or more people called “class representatives” or “named plaintiffs” sue on behalf of other people who have similar claims. The Class Representatives in this case are: Cynthia M. Clark, as successor personal representative of the Estates of Walter F. Kacala and Helen M. Kacala; Norman J. Loverde, as successor […]

In 1994, the Angelos Law Firm reached a settlement agreement with a Baltimore-based asbestos installer named MCIC, Inc. (formerly known as McCormick Asbestos Company) and its insurers, settling thousands of its clients’ asbestos injury claims against MCIC for between $1,000 and $9,500 each (depending on the progress of disease at that time). In the MCIC […]

Defendants’ records show that you were—or someone in your family, someone whose estate you represent, or someone for whom you are next of kin was—a beneficiary of the 1994 MCIC Settlement Agreement between MCIC and a number of its insurers, on the one hand, and the Angelos Law Firm and several other firms, on the […]